Last Sunday was Mother’s Day in the U.K. And, as is traditional in this country, we commemorated it with a gigantic guilt trip. A new study was commissioned by the post office, essentially demonstrating that your mother is always right about everything and has always been right about everything, but you didn’t start appreciating it until you were 26 years old. As such, the study implied, you should probably mail her more stuff.
However, this is not the most interesting takeaway. The report also listed 20 pieces of maternal advice that respondents wished they had listened to earlier. In truth, it would be almost impossible for anyone to stick to every instruction on the list. But, from a certain angle, the whole thing does seem like a wildly elaborate trolling exercise aimed directly at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Not because they’ve both experienced their fair share of heartbreak when it comes to parents, more that on this basis it might be fair to say that Harry and Meghan have never listened to a single piece of parental advice in their entire lives. Here’s the study’s suggestions, in the form of a checklist.
